I'm having difficulty with my console.  Odd things are happening.

For instance, clear doesn't clear the screen, and top refreshes 
are jumbled.  The output below was captured with script:

<SNIP>
dumbledore: {1} clear
[2Jdumbledore: {2} clear
[2Jdumbledore: {3} clear
[2Jdumbledore: {4} top
[2Jload averages:  0.39,  0.23,  0.09
[1;72H21:58:30
20 processes:  19 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
Memory: 13M Act, 2976K Inact, 376K Wired, 36M Free, 126M Swp free
  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE     TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  196 root       2    0   672K 1680K sleep     0:04  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  228 rrarabie  29    0   224K 1200K onproc    0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
  204 root      18    0   120K  920K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd
  223 rrarabie  18    0  1232K  536K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% csh
  216 rrarabie  18    0  1232K  536K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% csh
  207 root      10    0   320K  920K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% cron
  155 root      10    0  1376K  408K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
    1 root      10    0   880K  352K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% init
  221 rrarabie   3    0   168K 1000K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% script
  222 rrarabie   3    0   184K  840K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% script
  181 mysql      2    0    21M 2936K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% mysqld
  182 root       2    0  1880K 2752K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  195 nobody     2    0  1896K 1720K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  191 nobody     2    0  1896K 1720K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  193 nobody     2    0  1896K 1720K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  194 nobody     2    0  1896K 1720K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  192 nobody     2    0  1896K 1720K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  199 root       2    0  1480K 1680K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sendmail
   85 root       2    0   152K  800K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
[5;1H
[1;16H 0.35,  0.23,  0.09
[1;72H21:58:32
[3;13H
[3;13H 0.4
[3;25H 0.0
[3;37H 0.6
[3;51H 0.0
[3;68H98.9
[7;3H228 rrarabie  28
[7;27H272K 1280K onproc
[7;51H0  2.05%  0.20% top
[8;3H196 root       2
[8;27H672K 1680K sleep 
[8;51H4
[8;67Hsshd
[5;1H
[1;16H 0.35,  0.23,  0.09
[1;72H21:58:34
[3;13H
[3;13H 0.1
[3;37H 0.0
[3;51H 0.1
[3;68H99.7
[7;54H0.54%  0.1
[5;1H
[1;16H 0.33,  0.22,  0.09
[1;72H21:58:36
[3;13H
[3;51H 0.0
[3;68H99.9
[7;3H196 root       2
[7;27H672K 1680K sleep 
[7;51H4  0.00%  0.00% sshd
[8;3H228 rrarabie  28
[8;27H272K 1280K onproc
[8;51H0
[8;67Htop
[5;1H
[1;16H 0.33,  0.22,  0.09
[1;72H21:58:38
[3;13H
[5;1H
[25;1H
</SNIP>

I don't find any errors in /var/log/messages or during boot-up.

Can anyone offer advice?

TIA.

-- 
Cheers!

Randy